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Classes are officially over! Aside from final exams/papers that is.
It’s eerie to think I’ve now had my last undergrad classes.

Uh oh people–it looks like the “Republican Attack Squad” (also known as the Republican attack machine/dogs) is about to fire (yet) another shot across the bow in the campaign…

No, it’s not the RNC or the Bush-Cheney Campaign rolling out any new ads…rather it’s apparently the contents of the latest issue of National Review.

I think the campaigns are going to be re-opening the history of the 1980s…

First off, how many people actually watch Nightline anymore? Especially on a Friday night?

Anyway, so everyone knows what Ted Koppel’s plan for tonight’s episode of Nightline is.

I’m sorry, but I think that this is more about a raitings sweeps stunt and the advancement of a political agenda rather than expression of sincerity. You know Ted, there is a day designated for rememberance–it’s called Memorial Day!

Michelle of ASV has a very well written post on the topic, and has links to other blogsphere opinions. Also see this other post of hers.

I think Jay covers this issue very well and succinctly.

As for Koppel, and his opinions, I’d like to share the following quote that he gave to the Justice when he spoke at Brandeis for Commencement in 2002:

“I think journalism in a democracy is an essential part of social justice, and you can’t
have one without the other,”
Koppel said when asked about Brandeis’s self-proclaimed purpose of social justice.–The Justice 5/8/02

Need I say much more?

Those who have made the ultimate sacrifice do indeed deserve to be remembered and honored, but the way Koppel is trying to do this is anything but honorable.

Scalia, one of the Supreme Court’s most reliable conservatives, recalled that he sailed through his own 1986 high court confirmation by a Senate vote of 98-0. He implied the same result would be impossible in today’s nearly evenly split, highly partisan Senate.

“Just between you and me,” he jokingly told hundreds of lawyers at a luncheon, “I have always been a fairly conservative person. I think that was known 18 years ago.” –Fox News

Justice Scalia was really confirmed 98-0?!? I would’ve never thought such a thing would have ever happened. Not even one vote against him?